Glove-fastener



(No Model.)

G. H. GOURSEN.

GLOVE FASTENER.

No. 384,429. Patented June 12, 1888.'

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GEORGE HAMPTON COURSEN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

GLOVE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 384,429, dated June 12,1888.

Application filed March 27, 1888. Serial No. 268,688. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HAMPTON CoURsEN, of Baltimore, in the Stateof Maryland, have invented a new and Improved Glove-Fastener, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a fastening device specially adapt-ed for use inconnection with gloves, and has for its object to simplify theconstruction of such devices and provide a simple, durable, andeffective article.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 illustrates the application of the device to a glove. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the keeper. Fig. 4 is aperspective view" of the locking-plate, and Fig. 5 is a longitudinalsection through the keeper and locking-plate when in position fordisengagement.

In carrying out the invention, A represents a glove, provided at oneside of the wrist opening a with an attached locking-plate, B, and atthe opposite side of said opening with a keeper, D, adapted to receivethe lockingplate, as best shown in Fig. 1.

The locking-plate B consists preferably of a single piece of metal bentupon itself, pressed, struck up, or otherwise manipulated, to form asemi-cylindrical or arched body, I), an apertured horizontal end member,b, at right angles to the body, by which it is attached thereto, and alatch, b at the opposite end of the said body, which latch, extendinghorizontally beneath the body, is also carried in parallel lines outwardto produce the projecting tongue b as best shown in Fig. 4.

The keeper D consists of a rectangular body, d, more or less U-shaped incross-section, and provided with apertured flanges (1, extending outwardat right angles to the body, whereby the said keeper is secured to theglove.

In the upper surface of the keeper a slot, d is produced, extending fromside to side, the side walls, d of which slot are inclined from theouter edge inward, or in direction of the wristopening a, when attachedto a glove, as best shown in Fig. 3, the said slot being adapted toreceive the latch of the lockingplate.

r In operation, to fasten the glove the latch is introduced in the slotd of the keeper, the inclined walls of which slot guide it down to thefull locked position illustrated in Fig. 2.

The tongue I) renders it impossible for the locking-plate to becomedetached from the keeper except when the latter assumes the inclinedposition illustrated in Fig. 5, and this position the lockingplate cannever assume au tomatically, if the glove is at all wellfitting, onaccount of the tension of the latter at the wrist. Neither is the deviceaffected by any horizontal play of the locking-plate when the parts areclasped, as the tongue b will slide under the outer top surface of thebody of the keeper, the length of the slot being so calculated andthelatch being of such size that when the tongue thus engages the keeperthe former will project beneath the body at each end of the slot,completely closing the same.

To disconnect the keeper and latch, as shown in Fig. 5, it is simplynecessary to cause the locking-plate to assume an upwardly and outwardlyinclined position.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described glove-fastener, consisting of a locking-plateprovided with an arched body, and an inwardly'curved latch integral withone end having an outwardlyprojecting horizontal tongue, and a keeperprovided with a slot in its upper surface adapted to receive said latchand tongue, substantially as shown and described.

2. The herein-described glove-fastener, consisting of a locking-plateprovided with an arched body, and an inwardly-curved latch integral withone end having an outwardlyprojecting horizontal tongue, and a keeperprovided with a slot in the upper surface ex- ICO tending from side toside and having inclined side walls, substantially as shown anddescribed.

3. The herein-desoribcd glove-fastener, con- 5 sisting of alocking-plate provided with an arched body, and an inwardly-curved latchessentially U shapedin cross-section,provided with a slob upon the upperface extending from [0 side to side and having inclined side walls,substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE HAMPTON COURSEN. Vitnesses:

integral with one end having an outwardlyl GEORGE E. SAVILLE, projectinghorizontal tongue, and a, keeper, FELIX R. SULLIVAN.

